Robert O'Leary is a Senior Software Developer with 13 years of experience building high-volume web services and APIs from Austin, Texas. He specializes in Go backends and full-stack web development, having led the rollout of a Golang-based API and contributed extensively to Teamwork Desk’s mail parsing, infrastructure, and frontend features. Comfortable across the stack, he blends hands-on systems work with ops skills—HAProxy, AWS, Redis, and MySQL—to tune performance for production workloads. An active open-source contributor, he improved error handling and developer ergonomics in the popular Revel Go framework by adding configurable editor links and refactoring core behavior. He thrives on self-directed technical challenges, favoring elegant, understandable solutions and frequently teaching himself new languages and frameworks to solve them.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, First Class Honours at Munster Technological University
A high productivity, full-stack web framework for the Go language.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 5 months
Contributions summary:Robert contributed to the Revel web framework by improving error handling and reporting. They introduced configurable error linking to provide developers with direct links to source code in their preferred editors. Additionally, the user refactored code to improve variable naming and configured the maximum request body size. These changes enhance developer experience and improve the framework's robustness.
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Robert O'Leary - Senior Software Developer at Teamwork.com